scarlet lightning
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Heliconia spikes gleamed like fixed scarlet lightning, zigzagging through the pungent air.
From Jungle Peace by Beebe, William
But if one of the other four men started to join them, she became a flash of scarlet lightning that tore the distance.
From Angel Island by Gillmore, Inez Haynes
We put it under an apple-tree in the side garden, where the scarlet lightning grows so tall and the Madonna lilies stand so white against the flaming background.
From The Diary of a Goose Girl by Shepperson, Claude A.
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